Wagbee - for when your projects have seasons.

Posted by Slartibartfarst
Jun 2, 2016 at 01:11 AM

Several of the cautionary/negative comments in this thread seem to be backed up by a visit to the website at https://wagbee.com/ - that is apparently also what is laughingly described as the “About” page as well.
The dearth of information about the service/product is hardly enlightening and presumably is not accidental (but one can never know what might have been in the mind of the page’s creator at the time).
Looking around at the “Discover” page (https://wagbee.com/c/incoming) seems to be even less enlightening. The only certain thing there seems to be a somewhat unfriendly TOS (Terms Of Service), but at least they are published up front.

My suggestion would be that, if you need to save web snapshots/pages, clippings, attached documents and files and notes on same, then put them in something like, for example:

1. Scrapbook: I give this web page searchable archiving tool a 5-star rating and have used it for years.
It is a Firefox-only extension which saves web snapshots/pages, clippings, attached documents and files and notes on same. Saved to the client in standard searchable html files. Web pages are copied faithfully.
However, Mozilla seems to be progressively disabling/killing Firefox, so I’m unsure whether Scrapbook could be recommended as a safe long-term option now.

Note that Scrapbook and Zotero (see below) both can provide the most faithful copying of web pages. That’s because they both use WebPageDump (http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/user/pollak/webpagedump/) for achieving pretty faithful captures of web pages and associated embedded links and meta-data.
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2. Zotero: I give this PIM a 5-star rating having trialled it for about 2 years.
Comes as a combined client and web-based storage servicem integrated with a stand-alone client tool that is a rather useful PIM (Personal Information Manager). Collection tools are extensions available for browsers - Firefox, IE, Opera, Chrome.

Blurb from the website at Zotero.com is a pretty accurate description:
Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content in your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. Whether you’re searching for a preprint on arXiv.org, a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times, or a book from your university library catalog, Zotero has you covered with support for thousands of sites.
Store anything: Zotero collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of your library, enabling you to find exactly what you’re looking for with just a few keystrokes.

Note that Zotero and Scrapbook (see above) both can provide the most faithful copying of web pages and associated embedded links and meta-data. That’s because they both use WebPageDump (http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/user/pollak/webpagedump/) for achieving pretty faithful captures of web pages.
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3. Wezinc: I give this PIM a 4-star rating so far - it would be 5-star but I am still currently trialling it. It may become my preferred option.
Still under development and in beta, this PIM seems likely to challenge a lot of the older approaches. It is a PIM and GTD tool which also captures web content, files, attachments, images, notes on same, etc. It integrates with te Clipboard and also has a very nifty capability to mind-map any information collected. Well worth a look-see.
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I should perhaps point out here that what I describe as my “21st century Zettelkasten” (Refer: Microsoft OneNote - how to make it your 21st century Zettelkasten PIM. - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31755.msg393032#msg393032), OneNote is NOT the best tool for capturing entire pages for archive of of web content, so I only use it for capturing relevant web page snippets, embedded links and metadata into my notes.